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My posts may be few and far between these days, but that is only because Motorcop and I have been covering a lot of great topics over on the Crossover Show, the internet’s first, best and only Fire,...
View ArticleEMS Bike Program from the ground up
My ramblings in this forum have been quiet lately, mainly because my therapy is finding new forms. Whether those forms be advanced ARFF training in Dallas, assisting in large MCI drills, writing SOGs,...
View ArticlePolice-24,336,756 EMS-4
“You can go to the hospital or go to jail!” Often, dear Officer, there are far more options than those, and your threat of incarceration usually frightens people into a completely unnecessary...
View ArticleGood Morning America skims over Fatigue in EMS
I was asked by my cousin Debbie, also a Fire Medic (Yes, it is a family business), what I thought about fatigue in EMS and the Good Morning America story about it that has been circling the EMS...
View Articlethe Crossover Show – Episode 36 – Perception vs Reality
In this, 2016’s very first episode, MC and HM talk about MC’s personal burr under his saddle: Perception and Reality. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times, “Perception is reality.”...
View ArticleDefining System Abuse – A Response to Ambulance Chaser
In his self described musings Ambulance Chaser, both a Medic and a Lawyer, brings up some great topics we seem to kick around but never want to dive into. Recently he wrote about system abuse in EMS:...
View ArticleJohnny and Roy lied to me – I write receipts
I was watching some episodes of Emergency! for an upcoming presentation and I began to notice something. Johnny and Roy lied to me. All those years watching Squad 51 wandering from rescue to rescue, to...
View Articlethe Crossover Show – Episode 37 – What Makes a Good Chief?
Do you know a cop’s cop? How about a firefighter’s firefighter? Do they have what it takes to run the department? Or are the two mutually exclusive? In this week’s episode, HM and MC talk...
View Articlethe Crossover Show – Episode 38 – How not to Get Tazered
Your heroes are back and better than ever (which isn’t really saying much, I know). This week we fire up the internet’s only Fire, Police and EMS podcast to bring you a discussion about a Michigan man...
View ArticleHey Board of Supervisors, You’re Remembering the Wrong People
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have unanimously approved a “Day of Remembrance” for a man shot and killed by Police after harming another person with a knife and threatening to do it again. The...
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